Other browsers that might be affected by the bug include Brave, Opera, and Vivaldi.

Microsoft also announced a fix on March 26 after having found the exploit on its Chromium-based Edge browser. After viewing the About Chrome section for an available update, if one is available, you can then click Relaunch to install the update. To check for and install the update, users can launch the Chrome browser, click Chrome menu then select About Google Chrome. The update will roll out in the coming days and weeks.

84, is now available for Mac, as well as Windows and Linux. Google also detailed on its Chrome Releases blog that the stable channel update, version. According to security researchers, there is currently an exploit taking advantage of this vulnerability that still “exists in the wild.” The “zero-day bug” is considered a “high-severity weakness,” according to BleepingComputer, which is likely what led to the quick turnaround and update fix by Google.Īs per Google’s policy, the company has restricted details of the bug until the update is installed by most users. The bug, called CVE-2022-1096, was documented in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) system by Google developer Prudhvi Kumar Bomman, after an anonymous security researcher discovered a hole in Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine that left it vulnerable to exploits. Google has sent out a necessary update for the Chrome web browser for the Mac to address a major security hole that was discovered on March 23.

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